onionz wrote:edit by "tracking people by IP" I mean how would NU go about correlating IP to real person? by login-name? again that's incredibly cumbersome.

I would imagine their database would track each login (at least that's how I would build it) and you can store, login dates, times, usernames, IP address. IP would likely be the least effective but it's possible.

onionz wrote:edit by "tracking people by IP" I mean how would NU go about correlating IP to real person? by login-name? again that's incredibly cumbersome.

I would imagine their database would track each login (at least that's how I would build it) and you can store, login dates, times, usernames, IP address. IP would likely be the least effective but it's possible.

Why would they do that? Now they have to maintain a database of logins... that's a lot of work not to mention that database will get large/expensive.

(I know it's not actually a lot of work- but we're talking about a system that crashes when a couple hundred of applicants try to check their status. Not very sophisticated stuff we're working with here.

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onionz wrote:edit by "tracking people by IP" I mean how would NU go about correlating IP to real person? by login-name? again that's incredibly cumbersome.

I would imagine their database would track each login (at least that's how I would build it) and you can store, login dates, times, usernames, IP address. IP would likely be the least effective but it's possible.

Why would they do that? Now they have to maintain a database of logins... that's a lot of work not to mention that database will get large/expensive.

(I know it's not actually a lot of work- but we're talking about a system that crashes when a couple hundred of applicants try to check their status. Not very sophisticated stuff we're working with here.

onionz wrote:edit by "tracking people by IP" I mean how would NU go about correlating IP to real person? by login-name? again that's incredibly cumbersome.

I would imagine their database would track each login (at least that's how I would build it) and you can store, login dates, times, usernames, IP address. IP would likely be the least effective but it's possible.

Why would they do that? Now they have to maintain a database of logins... that's a lot of work not to mention that database will get large/expensive.

(I know it's not actually a lot of work- but we're talking about a system that crashes when a couple hundred of applicants try to check their status. Not very sophisticated stuff we're working with here.

Fair, I don't understand why they don't invest in a high quality db.

It doesn't have to be a lot of work, or all that expensive, or even require a lot of maintenance. But yeah, their system as they have it now is not...the best.